Remilia Posts

I've never had anything but excellent customer service from SMJ. There have been one or two incidents in the two years (or 200 invoices o.O) that I've used them. Both were resolved quickly and satisfactorily. I've had no problem on the order side of things (other than the denied Taiwan order which has been taken care of), but their domestic shipping has been a bit slow as of late. Even so, that's as far as the extent of my "complaints" go and I don't know why you're having such a bad time, man. :( Hopefully there won't be any other problems in the future. :D

Yeah, I've seen Mandarake add other covers from the circle from time to time, but never that one. I was definitely psyched when I saw it added and very relieved when Mandarake sent the confirmation email. Definitely got really lucky that no one else was after it, because this was the one morning I decided to sleep in... I'm normally right on top of all the daily Mandarake updates.

Yeah, I'm enjoying the way my Paladin plays right now. Still think it's a bit sad that they've eliminated Auras and the oversimplification of the talent system is still something I'm up in the air about. Granted most classes are usually forced into cookie cutter builds in order to stay competitive, I liked the idea that there was always the choice to try something really unique. There were absolutely a lot of terrible talents (that they pruned with each expansion) and there may still be some ways to experiment, but it saddens me a bit that the customization was cut down so drastically.

I remember reading about that system in Cataclysm sometime, I think. I definitely had mixed feelings about it then, and I still do now. It's great that people are able to see more content; everyone should have some chance to see the content of the game they're paying for. Even so, it really shouldn't be handed to people and they're absolutely missing out on sense of achievement/pride that comes with a guild first kill. I still occasionally look back on my early BC raiding experience, which is when I was most active in raiding.

Heh, achievements are one thing I have never given one damn about (in any game, for that matter), with very few exceptions. I remember trying to do the Wrath dungeon achievements for the mount or whatever it was, but that was more because we had a good core 5-man and it was fun playing with the group. I remember there being a few that didn't favor a specific class, and I had absolutely no problem sitting out and missing the achievement. The other time was when server first achievements were first announced. I really, really wanted the Crusader title to go on my paladin. Once they decided to pull the titles associated with it, I lost all interest in making a run at server first. I ended up doing RAF with a friend about a week before the expansion hit, on a new server. Hit 70 about two days before it released, and blew through to some server first 80s in greens (I was too lazy to spend that time to PvP for free epics.)

True enough. I liked it a lot upon initial viewing, so if I still like it as much in a week or so, I'll almost certainly end up ordering it. I just need to stop spending so much in general. I think I need to start cutting out the covers I don't feel strongly about and stick to my favorite circles along with the occasional piece that really appeals to me.

Yeah, I just started playing it yesterday I think it was. I'm taking things pretty slowly to begin with versus my Wrath (where I managed a few server firsts) and Cataclysm (every waking moment on Archaeology) styles of play that probably led to my quick burnout. I raided in Wrath for the initial raids but didn't last until Ulduar and I quit Cataclym after about a month of playing it... I really wanted to professor title and ended up quitting at like 18/20 (~15/20 on my second character.)

When I logged back in the other day, the first thing I did was check my /play and I had under 4 days total at 85, on two characters. All of that time was spent on Archaeology; I quested a bit on the second toon to break up the monotony, but I'd say 95% of the first toon's leveling came from Archaeology and probably about 80% of the second's did. So I really didn't stick around long at all for the expansion and I saw next to nothing content wise.

I don't want to do the same thing this time around, so I'm really taking things slow and enjoying it as I go along. The changes were a bit strange and it had been over two years since I had seriously played (when I was doing Archaeology I had my mount and Survey bound to my primary hotkeys.) I tried the first few quests on both of my toons and died quite easily to two mobs. A mix of shitty level 70ish gear, inexperience with the changes, and not having played in two years was just a really bad combination. So I sat down with my paladin (the toon I decided to level first), completely cleared my action bars, redid my hotkeys, and then went through my spellbook and set things up.

I haven't really had any problems since then and have been enjoying myself. I'm currently about halfway through 86, I think and fairly close to wrapping up the first zone.

Heh, now he knows how I'm normally feeling on the weekend; it seems that whenever I post Thursday/Friday night, I have the topic to myself for the weekend. :P Just haven't had much to add, but I've been occupied otherwise the last few weeks with anime, D3 and most recently some MoP. :o

Yeah, I really like the Remilia. I'm thinking about picking it up but will have to see how things fall. The order window is open for about two week so I can see how I feel about it then. I think it's about time I taper back and save a bit for Comiket... otherwise I know it's going to destroy me financially like this hobby already has in general. Been trying to cut back on Mandarake purchases as well, but I finally managed to snag a cover I've wanted for about a year. Always feels good when you see something uncommon pop up and it hasn't sold out yet.

The way I see it is most of my collection is art. I do occasionally toss a cover onto a pillow, but the vast majority of my collection is for collection/potentially display only. So maybe 20 of the 200+ covers I have will ever be put on a pillow, while the rest are reserved solely for my admiration. That's a fairly expensive piece of art. The art on the shirts is absolutely beautiful; I probably won't ever wear them, but they'll definitely fit right in with the rest of my dakimakura collection, as art to be displayed. And it's considerably cheaper, too.

For anyone interested, the Purely Kiss EG Tops shirts are up on their Amazon store. I picked both of the ones I wanted up via SMJ. :D

http://www.amazon.co.jp/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=eg%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9&index=toys-jp&search-type=ss

Yeah, SMJ ordered the items I wanted. Either you were too late in getting it in, or they ordered everything at the same time and sent me an email but not you one. Really hoping it's the later. :(

Yeah, the figure.fm is certainly nice as far as them explaining shit goes. They actually have a rules page now that explains what's allowed and what isn't, as well as how the publishing of articles works. It looks like I could publish stuff and it may not be approved, but it would still appear to those who sought it out, just not on the front page tab. There's a new "Upcoming" tab for the posts that haven't been approved for whatever reason.


Edit: Shots from the first Marks Miku that Zengar asked about: http://syota.tumblr.com/post/332266015

Definitely don't think it's their best work, but I quite like it myself. The backside is especially appealing to me. If I could get it for a somewhat reasonable price, I definitely would.

Avatar picture looks like it's working fine for me. Though the Imgur links just broke, apparently. :o

Yeah, Yokatta would be my go to for these type of things if I had the money up front. Weekend orders are just way too hard to accommodate, even if SMJ is usually pretty good about it (SMJ did manage to get my order in, so yay. :D)

SMJ's official policy is they don't work on weekends, when it comes to special orders, shipping, limit increases and so on, but in my experience they're usually pretty good at getting special orders in on the weekend. I'd give it another day or two and if you don't hear anything shoot them an email; I think they usually request 2-3 business days to process limit increases.

And the calendar is for 2012, unfortunately. It sold at C81, which was December of last year. I'm hoping that they do another one for C83, which is quickly approaching.

Imgur can be so damn buggy at times. Here's the CranCrown cover, as promised. Looks like the front side didn't upload properly for some reason (and the order of pictures got screwed up), so I'll upload to Sadpanda in a minute.

http://imgur.com/a/bPvLF

https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/1239502-ZIP32QE.jpg

Yeah, it's in the adult section searching for Clesta. Was 4500 yen and the same seller had another one for the same price.

I just looked on YJA now, and it appears to be gone. There was a listing before I posted the calendar last night, so I'm not sure if the auction expired or if someone else found it first. :P

Calendar he's talking about, for those who don't browse Reddit: http://imgur.com/a/lVUne

Looking good. I'd definitely buy the Miku if she ever came down to a reasonable price, but I don't have to have it like I feel the need for most Anko covers. I'd still love to grab their original Miku that sells for 70k+, though. >.<

Just got two packages this morning myself. One from AmiAmi which included the Crancrown cover. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would, though of course not as good as my unrealistic wishes were; she's sporting some very nice and plump lips, with lots of juices. The line is nice and long (versus some that have a very small indentation) but fairly faint. Sadly, she doesn't have a visible anus, but I'm still very pleased with how it turned out. I'll toss up some pics later.

The second was from Evening Call, featuring the two Pretty Cure chicks (Nao and the blue one) and Lisarra. About to open Nao, but the other two turned out very nicely.


Should also get my SMJ order later in the day. It was a bit strange; USPS requires EMS packages to be delivered before 12PM usually, but my SMJ package is Priority Mail. My mailman dropped off my other two packages but didn't hand out my SMJ package. According to the tracking, it's out for delivery, so either he didn't know he had a third package for me (I didn't think to ask), or another mailman will be delivering it later. Was hoping to get it early, but as long as I get it today I'll be happy.

Hmm, not sure if that's their old or their new. I know they had a problem a few months back with Paypal because of adult items; people were linking the items in the messages they sent to Yokatta, which alerted Paypal that they were selling adult items. They changed their Paypal address immediately, but I don't recall if that's their old or their new. If it's their new, then they've gotten banned again. D: Either way, if they respond to your email soon enough, you should still be able to get an order in.

On the last Lolipop order (it was a Marks order), I put in an order with both SMJ and Yokatta... and they both placed the order in time, so I ended up with doubles of everything. :P

I'd really, really recommend contacting Yokatta now if you are able to spare the cash. SMJ is usually pretty quick, but even if they got your limit increase in today (which isn't a sure thing), it would still be tomorrow before they process your order at the very least (and they say they don't process special orders on weekends, though I've had mixed results with that.) I've put in orders within minutes of the Lolipop site going up (Marks and Anko both use it) and have still missed out on an order. The 48 hour time window is just too hard to work with when you have to use a proxy. :/

Yeah, Anko special order is up. :D

I don't know how you guys deal with it; I can't stand the frames that SMJ/Rinkya add to the auction window. Whenever someone links me an auction through SMJ/Rinkya, the very first thing I do is pull up the actual YJA page.

The most important thing to consider in an auction is almost always the body of the description. The body says that it's unopened, which is all you need to know. Most sellers on YJA are overly worried about someone returning a product for a minimal reason. If you look at just about every dakimakura auction, in the body is a phrase similar to "Because these are secondhand goods, please acknowledge that there may be scratches or some such."

The only place I see used is at the top in the info section, which is very common for unopened secondhand goods. It probably has something to do with YJA's definition of new/used; new may imply that it's direct from the manufacturer, so a lot of YJA sellers will mark it as used, despite the fact that it's unopened, to be on the safe side of YJA's policies.

I'm definitely a fan of the new Lose cover. But I'll probably end up getting the Maidoll and Lilith Asagi covers. Ton of other covers I'd like to order too, but as always, this is an expensive hobby. :

No idea why it's so expensive myself. I own it and it isn't anything absolutely outstanding in terms of explicitness. Guess it's probably so expensive because of the character is popular or something, but I honestly don't have the slightest clue.


http://ww.nijigenshingu.info/makura/img/838205.jpg

Six of the nine covers and 3 of the Ahri bag.

Works out to 17100 NTD versus 84000 yen (had made a mistake here and thought the bag was 5000 yen not 4000 yen.) Even then, it's still a pretty large deal of savings assuming shipping isn't too high: $633 vs $1050. No idea where I got the $600 difference, but had my mistake been right it would have been closer to $500 instead of $400.

With the number of items I'm ordering, before proxy fees and shipping cost to the US, I'm saving about $600. Figure even if shipping were $300, which seems rather high, I'm still saving $300. Factor in any miscellaneous fees I may be missing and I'm still saving some money. While SMJ's beta testing the Taiwanese deputy service, there are no service fees.